IDF: 200 Hezbollah Operatives Killed in Lebanon Since Monday — 600+ Strikes, 820+ Bombs

The IDF released a summary of its Lebanon campaign through Day 9, announcing approximately 200 Hezbollah and other militant operatives killed since hostilities intensified on Monday — the day after the war with Iran began. The breakdown of the 200 killed includes 80 members of Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force, 70 Hezbollah artillery operatives, and a number of top commanders including the chief of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Lebanon. The IDF said it had conducted over 600 strikes in Lebanon using over 820 bombs across the period. Lebanon's health ministry puts the total killed in the country at 394 — a figure that includes civilians and non-Hezbollah combatants. The Radwan Force is Hezbollah's most elite unit, trained for commando operations and border incursions into Israel. The loss of 80 Radwan Force members in a single week represents a significant attrition of Hezbollah's highest-capability offensive unit. The PIJ Lebanon chief's elimination removes another Iran-linked command node. Simultaneously, Hezbollah has launched dozens of rockets and drones at Israeli communities including Haifa, Karmiel, and Safed — demonstrating continued operational capability despite the attrition. The IDF is caught in a classic counterinsurgency dynamic: high kill rates have not stopped rocket fire because Hezbollah's launch infrastructure is dispersed and resilient.